高中英语语法填空:对话题型培优练习 Test 12

W: You know I've often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom. We are to feel sorry for them.

M: Actually, Laura, I think we laugh because we are glad 　61　 didn't happen to us. But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important 　62　 (make) a fool of themselves.

W: Yes, and there are a lot of jokes about people who are too fat or physically handicapped, you know, deaf, or short-sighted, things 　63　 that. After all, it's not really funny 　64　 (be) like that.

M: Oh, I think that's 　65　 we're embarrassed. We don't know how to cope with the situation. Perhaps we are even a bit frightened 　66　 we may get like that, so we laugh.

M: What about the custard pie routine?

W: What do you mean “custard pie routine”?

M: You know, all those old films 　67　 someone gets so outraged with his boss that he picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person's face.

W: That never makes me laugh much, because you can guess what's going to happen. But a lot of people still find it laughable. It must be because of the sort of the thing we'd all love to do once in a 　68　 and never quite have 　69　 courage to.

M: I had an old aunt who 　70　 (use) to throw cups of tea at people when she was particularly irritated. She said it relieved her feelings.

W: It must have come a bit expensive.

M: Not really. She took care never to throw her best china.